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- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 4 days ago:
This is not in any way true.
SEO is an almost impossible to solve problem because sites know any search engine exists.
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 4 days ago:
None of this is relevant to the fact that your claim isn’t even the weakest of weak evidence for your position. It is literally completely unconnected. SEO is a problem because searching through adversarial data inputs is not a problem anyone has shown any capacity to solve.
And Google’s search engine is a singular product. There is nothing to break it off from. Its position is exclusively the product of the fact that there is no other option that’s remotely functional. Search is hard and no one else even has developed even a mildly interesting alternative.
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 4 days ago:
Except nothing else actually does meaningfully better than Google, even with Google being the only thing sites care about optimizing for.
It’s incredibly difficult to do a useful search if sites are hostile and doing everything possible to muddy the results.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 5 days ago:
No, they’re not.
An ereader is a piece of hardware that has a distinct purpose that cannot be matched by other hardware (high quality, high contrast, low power draw static content). Some of them do run Android, and that’s a huge value add. But the actual hardware is the reason it exists.
This is just a dogshit Android phone. There is no unique hardware niche it’s filling. It’s an extremely obvious scam that is very obviously massively downgraded in all of value, utility, and performance by being forced onto separate hardware.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 5 days ago:
No, they won’t. Because it’s just a shitty downgraded smartphone controlled by a super shady company with massive security and privacy concerns.
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 5 days ago:
Because they down ranked sites blatantly shoveling shit for the sole purpose of gaming their algorithm?
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 6 days ago:
lol at calling running Android an “emulator”.
Also don’t they have to distribute the actual code for the OS if it’s lightly altered Android?
- Comment on FCC fines big three carriers $196M for selling users’ real-time location data 1 week ago:
Fuck that.
I mean, you can also bankrupt them with fines. But violating people’s rights for profit should put you in a prison cell. And no minimum security bullshit.
- Comment on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok 1 week ago:
No, I got you. I was just using another reply as an excuse to expand a little I guess lol.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Existing is shitty. There is no desire to “encourage” Facebook to do anything. Everything they touch is malignant and interacting with them in any way is a dumpster fire.
Quarantining Facebook isn’t to affect their behavior in any way. It’s because the mere fact that an instance connects to Facebook makes them toxic.
- Comment on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok 1 week ago:
I’m not going to argue if it’s identical to ADHD chemically. I’m not sure we have the level of understanding of the low level mechanisms to differentiate (if it even is actually different), or even that ADHD is “one mechanism” and not a bundle of similar mechanisms of different types of disregulation with similar outcomes, because diagnosis of any mental difference is effectively all about checking boxes on patterns of behavior.
But even if there’s something you can point to as clearly a distinguishing factor to say “this isn’t ADHD as we’ve defined it”, which I’m not sure you can, I’m not sure how you say they’re not similar or related.
- Comment on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok 1 week ago:
ADHD doesn’t even really mean short attention spans, it’s more of the inability to willingly direct attention. It’s the same way people incorrectly use “OCD” to mean liking things clean and/or orderly.
Both of these are the product of needing constant stimulation. I understand your point that hyper-focus is also part of ADD/ADHD, and I certainly am not going to make claims about how your brain is changing structurally without evidence behind it.
So this is mere conjecture for a mechanism:
What these apps (with short format video being the worst) do is train your brain to expect a constant stream of dopamine hits. Novelty (presumably even trash novelty like TikTok) triggers dopamine, your brain becomes dependent on that steady stream of dopamine fix, and your body starts craving it once you remove that pattern of behavior.
This is very similar to ADHD, which is also strongly connected to problems with how dopamine is regulated. It’s not as simple as just not enough dopamine or poor uptake or whatever, but it’s reasonably clear that it plays a role.
So both cases are a result of poor dopamine regulation causing a need for stimulation that has a negative impact on ability to function from day to day. They’re probably at minimum relatively similar.
- Comment on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok 1 week ago:
I’ll do football film on iPad or desktop. I’ll very occasionally do a video class format on one of those. That’s it. Anything else is going on a TV.
Games I love handheld, though, so IDK.
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 1 week ago:
The US, for one, which pretty much makes it apply universally anywhere on YouTube, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc, as they’re all US companies.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 1 week ago:
No, mind reading is a hundred orders of magnitude more invasive than any possible search.
There is no possible scenario where it could ever possibly be justified or excused. Your brain is unconditionally sacred. There is no possible theoretical version of such technology that could ever not be pure, unforgivable evil.
- Comment on Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO 1 week ago:
Chat>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>phone
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 1 week ago:
Not if it comes with a level of invasiveness that is unforgivable it wouldn’t be.
Forcibly invading someone’s mind after they were convicted beyond reasonable doubt would make you a monster.
- Comment on The Apple Vision Pro’s eBay prices are making me sad 1 week ago:
It’s used. You always take a loss on used hardware unless it’s scalping because it’s impossible to get new.
- Comment on Qualcomm benchmarking controversy: What's happening? 1 week ago:
Power draw is heavily varied from fraction of a second to fraction of a second. TDP is more or less the target for average power draw over a longer period of time, and probably more importantly, something you’re more likely to get a representative to answer. They’re probably not going to give you the peak momentary power draw because it doesn’t mean anything, and they probably won’t give you average either. TDP is as much as you’re likely to get.
- Comment on GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse 1 week ago:
If they weren’t all insane, twitter’s format has value for following real time events. For sports, for example, following a personally curated selection of sports reporters makes it a lot easier to keep up with transactions across the leagues I care about.
Reddit’s is better for discussion of those events, but not everything gets that far.
Facebook’s is supposed to be for actual friends to keep up with what’s going on in each other’s lives. Obviously it’s not actually talking, and you still want to do that, but it makes it easier to keep up with a larger group of people.
The problem with all of them is that they’re owned and run by insane shitbags, so they’re not worth the trade off. And the problem with fediverse alternatives is that they all rely on network effect to have their value. But in theory they each have a place, which is how they all managed to coexist despite the strong constraint of needing volume to serve a purpose. They serve different uses.
- Comment on Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements. 1 week ago:
I paid for 10 Pro
It was still a dumpster fire.
- Comment on Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements. 1 week ago:
lol they also (in 10 at least; I have no intention of touching 11) have like 20 years of incoherent and unconnected menus for different settings, and you just have to know where they are to get to them.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 1 week ago:
Because they’re doing shit responsibly.
For the target audience they chose that thing is a fucking bargain. Do you know how many people making damn good money sit in hours of 4 lane bumper to bumper traffic every day? “You don’t have to drive and we assume liability if our system fucks up” is a massive value add.
(Not enough that I’d ever consider dealing with that kind of commute no matter what you paid me. But still.)
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down ‘Spy Pet’ Bots That Scraped, Sold User Messages 1 week ago:
This is why they changed their API to make bots that serve too many servers (100 maybe?) become verified and go through an application process to be able to ask for the message content intent, which was part of discord bot libraries revolting for a while. But their choice was actually a pretty good middle ground. There’s very good reason to allow devs to build out and actually test the functionality on their own server or couple of servers without the giant limiting factor of getting someone from discord to evaluate every feature you might possibly add.
If they’re doing this through regular user accounts instead, I don’t know what you expect discord to do. Public servers aren’t private. Hundreds to thousands of people can see your messages. They’re not that different than posting them in any other public forum. Technical limitations only go so far.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 1 week ago:
They’re not a rival. They’re a hostile power.
We are both dependent on each other because that’s how the global economy works, but we are not friends and there is no possible path to friendship unless one of our countries has an extremely bloody revolution and completely changes our mechanism of government.
Our core ideologies are not compatible.
- Comment on Independent auditors confirm top VPN doesn't log your data 1 week ago:
Proton also, unlike PIA, doesn’t routinely crash and break my VPN access on iPhone.
My sessions go until I disable them (for stuff like sports betting that legally has to restrict VPN usage).
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 2 weeks ago:
There’s no legal case to be had.
The constitution grants congress effectively unlimited power to regulate international trade. Citizens have rights. Foreign actors do not.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 2 weeks ago:
An enemy state giving kids a script of nonsense to harass politicians with is absolutely not a good thing.
- Comment on Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore 2 weeks ago:
I would pay a stupid amount of money for one that sits on the back and slides out the side in landscape.
- Comment on Zuckerberg says Meta's Llama 3 is really good but no chatbot is sophisticated enough to be an 'existential' threat — yet 2 weeks ago:
An actual AI (that modern tools don’t even vaguely resemble) could maybe theoretically be dangerous.
An LLM cannot be dangerous. There’s no path to anything resembling intelligence or agency.